Absurd, the: Subcategory of the comic. Includes equal rates of the comic and the tragic. E.g. absurd drama.Accentual Verse: A type of verse measured by the number of accents in each line. Most English poetry is accentualsyllabic, i.e. its rhythm arises from the number and alternation of its stressed and unstressed syllables as organized intofeet. Accentual verse is used e.g. in Beowulf. Affective Fallacy: A confusion between a work of art and its results, i.e. what it is and what it does". Evalu...